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Daniela Dover
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Spring 2025 - Professor Dover is very passionate, kind, and does her best to help you succeed. The only book that you need for the class is The Republic by Plato in which she provides or you can buy a book on Amazon for $10. The basic structure of the class was 3 reading responses in which you relate the book to your life, experiences, movies, etc., and one final project which is a paper dialogue of your own script that relates to arguments in the book. Lecture really consisted of Dover going over concepts and arguments in The Republic and basically explaining it more. I think if you are interested in philosophy you'll enjoy this class, but for me I was super bored. Most students start skipping lecture by the end, but just for reference lectures aren't recorded. So overall I would say this is a pretty easy class for a GE since there's no midterm and the final is a paper, but you do have to make sure you know roughly what's going on in order to write the dialogue project and reading responses.
Spring 2025 - Professor Dover is very passionate, kind, and does her best to help you succeed. The only book that you need for the class is The Republic by Plato in which she provides or you can buy a book on Amazon for $10. The basic structure of the class was 3 reading responses in which you relate the book to your life, experiences, movies, etc., and one final project which is a paper dialogue of your own script that relates to arguments in the book. Lecture really consisted of Dover going over concepts and arguments in The Republic and basically explaining it more. I think if you are interested in philosophy you'll enjoy this class, but for me I was super bored. Most students start skipping lecture by the end, but just for reference lectures aren't recorded. So overall I would say this is a pretty easy class for a GE since there's no midterm and the final is a paper, but you do have to make sure you know roughly what's going on in order to write the dialogue project and reading responses.
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Fall 2018 - ****SELLING PLATO'S "THE REPUBLIC" in great condition for $10! TEXT ME @ ************** This is a philosophy class, so there's never any order at all (and this is coming from a North Campus major). You will ALWAYS be confused about what you're supposed to be doing for this class and whether or not you're doing it right because there's no rubric or handouts or anything. Do NOT take this class with Michael Skiles as your TA. He's extremely unorganized and would always just ramble on and on in section about one aspect of the readings. I went to his office hours for feedback on my final project and when I asked him for his expectations (because no one was given a rubric despite the class syllabus promising one), he instead told me that the nature of philosophy is open-ended. That was totally wrong because when I got my final project back, he marked me down heavily for things that I failed to include that he wanted to see. Overall, the class workload isn't too bad. You read Plato's The Republic and a few other PDFs; there's an in-class midterm and take-home final in which you create your own utopia.
Fall 2018 - ****SELLING PLATO'S "THE REPUBLIC" in great condition for $10! TEXT ME @ ************** This is a philosophy class, so there's never any order at all (and this is coming from a North Campus major). You will ALWAYS be confused about what you're supposed to be doing for this class and whether or not you're doing it right because there's no rubric or handouts or anything. Do NOT take this class with Michael Skiles as your TA. He's extremely unorganized and would always just ramble on and on in section about one aspect of the readings. I went to his office hours for feedback on my final project and when I asked him for his expectations (because no one was given a rubric despite the class syllabus promising one), he instead told me that the nature of philosophy is open-ended. That was totally wrong because when I got my final project back, he marked me down heavily for things that I failed to include that he wanted to see. Overall, the class workload isn't too bad. You read Plato's The Republic and a few other PDFs; there's an in-class midterm and take-home final in which you create your own utopia.
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Winter 2017 - I took Philos 6 with Daniela Dover Winter 2017. This was her first time teaching a large lecture (she previously had only taught graduate seminars). She is very sweet and accommodating of students, but she had no idea how to make a plan for coursework for the quarter. She was quite sick for a large portion of the quarter and we thereby fell far behind, and she expected students to continue learning coursework even when lectures were cancelled multiple times. That being said, you can put in minimal work into this class and still receive a good grade. The midterm was open note and the final, she gives you the questions that she'll be asking on the midterm. Overall, this course wasn't what I was expecting and it isn't the easiest GE just because it can get quite frustrating, but it's an easy way to fulfill certain GE requirements.
Winter 2017 - I took Philos 6 with Daniela Dover Winter 2017. This was her first time teaching a large lecture (she previously had only taught graduate seminars). She is very sweet and accommodating of students, but she had no idea how to make a plan for coursework for the quarter. She was quite sick for a large portion of the quarter and we thereby fell far behind, and she expected students to continue learning coursework even when lectures were cancelled multiple times. That being said, you can put in minimal work into this class and still receive a good grade. The midterm was open note and the final, she gives you the questions that she'll be asking on the midterm. Overall, this course wasn't what I was expecting and it isn't the easiest GE just because it can get quite frustrating, but it's an easy way to fulfill certain GE requirements.
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